Prometheus novelisation?

[Mr. Clemens]

He even joked that they could get Alan Dean Foster to write it. 

[Engineer]

Lmao! Wow did not know all that! Now THATs a classic story! :-)

[windebieste]

Unfortunately, Dick died before the movie was released.  He did see a rough cut of the movie and I believe he approved of it. 

To continue bouncing the subject around, from book to movie to book again consider this.   K.W. Jetter went on to write the official book, 'Blade Runner 2' which was published in 1995.  It was OK.  Mind you, I don't believe the upcoming movie draws any influence from it at all.  We may yet end up with an official novelisation of the film.  I wonder what they'll call it? 'Blade Runner 2: (Tagline)'  I guess.

-Windebieste.

[𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯]

Unfortunately, Dick died before the movie was released.  He did see a rough cut of the movie and I believe he approved of it. 

No, he only saw an special effects reel accompanied by a bit of Vangelis music that Scott played for him. He liked that but he never saw the actual film.

As I mentioned earlier, he did however get hold of one of Hampton Fancher's earlier Blade Runner/Dangerous Days drafts which he publicly denounced saying it was basically "Philip Marlowe meets the Stepford Wives". He also went on to bash Alien, saying "a monster is a monster, a spaceship is a spaceship, and the only thing that saves this is the special effects"

To continue bouncing the subject around, from book to movie to book again consider this.   K.W. Jetter went on to write the official book, 'Blade Runner 2' which was published in 1995.  It was OK.  Mind you, I don't believe the upcoming movie draws any influence from it at all.

That's right, the new film is based upon an outline by original Blade Runner scriptwritter, Hampton Fancher.

[Engineer]

And to bring things (sorta) back full circle...

There's a novel adaptation of the first avp movie, which was based on a comic series and bares very little resemblance to that comic series... Lol

[Mr. Clemens]

K.W. Jetter went on to write the official book, 'Blade Runner 2' which was published in 1995. It was OK

I didn't mind that book *too* much, but boy, the one that came after it was a piece of piss...

[windebieste]

Haven't read the 3rd one.  I'm not even sure I knew of it.   I don't think I'm missing much by the sound of it.

Well, yeah.  Either way, Dick saw early footage of the movie but unfortunately he never saw it get released due to his death.  Sadly.

Yes.  He didn't like 'ALIEN'.  Which is ironic considering O'Bannon went on to write the treatment of Dick's 'We can Remember it for you Wholesale' released as 'Total Recall'.

I wonder what Dick would have thought of that movie?  He wasn't interested in depicting his characters as larger than life heroes.  They tended to be 'the little guy' caught up in incomprehensible, shifting situations.

-Windebieste.

And to bring things (sorta) back full circle...

There's a novel adaptation of the first avp movie, which was based on a comic series and bares very little resemblance to that comic series... Lol

The Cerasini novelisation?  This book has my all time favourite gaff.  EVER!  It's on page 24.  See if you can find it...

[Engineer]

Well, I saw two possible gaffs, but I'm gonna go with polar bears living in Antarctica. Lmao

[Mr. Clemens]

Haven't read the 3rd one.  I'm not even sure I knew of it.   I don't think I'm missing much by the sound of it.

It went:

Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human (1995)
Blade Runner 3: Replicant Night (1996)
Blade Runner 4: Eye and Talon (2000)

As you know, BR2 was 'okay' (despite the utterly misguided idea of having Gaff dead on page 1), but BR3 was such a drag that I never even gave the final book a chance.

And yes, Dick was positively glowing about the BR footage he saw. Paraphrasing here, but he said it was like the filmmakers had looked directly into his own mind.

[Engineer]

The second gaff I saw was the phrase "heat sensitive sensors"

It's grammatically redundant. All he had to say was "heat sensors" which would imply that these sensors were sensitive to heat. Lmao

[windebieste]

Yeah.  Hang on I'll just grab my copy...

'ALIEN vs PREDATOR'^TM, Marc Cerasini, Page 24:  "Nothing existed in Sector 14, unless you counted polar bears and penguins."

Brilliant!

-Windebieste.

[Engineer]

Yeah.  Hang on I'll just grab my copy...

'ALIEN vs PREDATOR'^TM, Marc Cerasini, Page 24:  "Nothing existed in Sector 14, unless you counted polar bears and penguins."

Brilliant!

-Windebieste.

Yea that's pretty hilarious!
And as much as I despise the avp movie(s), I have to admit, my least favorite novelization of all time is "predator." Oh man was that one BAAAAD! I don't blame the writer though, he was working off of some early version of the script which obviously changed pretty significantly. I just wish someone had told him the script changed so he could've updated the novel before publishing. Lol

[SM]

Lead times are too long.  The novelisation has to be written, edited, printed and shipped prior to the film's release.

[Engineer]

Lead times are too long.  The novelisation has to be written, edited, printed and shipped prior to the film's release.

That's unfortunate. I enjoy novelizations. :-(

[Kurai]

Scott is doing the second Bladerunner, right? I wonder if he'll go along with the potential Prometheus-Bladerunner shared universe that was hinted at in the Blu-Ray? 

Could have our own Alien Cinematic Universe going. XD

On topic: I hope that Dark Horse does release a Prometheus and Covenant straight up comic adaption.